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Walter Dean describes the context of the film and prior to the screening.

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Walter Dean describes the context of the film and prior to the screening.

Walter Dean Leads Discussion on Media and Democracy

Institute of Management, Astana, September 28

Walter Dean, a 40-year veteran of broadcast journalism, led screenings and discussions in Almaty and Astana September 26 and 28 of Good Night, and Good Luck, the film depicting how Edward R. Murrow helped put an end to the Communist witch hunts of the 1950s by challenging accuser Senator Joe McCarthy on television news. Dean conducted Socratic dialogues with the film audiences and students at KIMEP, KazGu, and Eurasian National University, by posing questions to explain the responsibility of media to provide information citizens need to make crucial decisions affecting their lives.

Dean is currently the director of broadcast initiatives for the Committee of Concerned Journalists, a consortium of journalists, publishers, owners and academics. The group seeks "to clarify and renew journalists' faith in the core principles and function of journalism, to create a better understanding of those principles by the public, and to engage and inform ownership and management of these principles and their financial as well as social value." Dean's program was the latest in the series of Splash! events celebrating the move of the embassy from Almaty to Astana, by highlighting American values and culture.   View photogallery